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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Woodwalker (#1) by Emily B. Martin

You know what?This book's title really doesn't lie, so get ready for a lot of walking through the woods, lolThat
being said, I can't say that this story disappointed me, despite
usually not being a fan of this type of narrative; I'm thinking about a
book by Juliet Marillier in which I got to a point in which I wouldn't
have minded if all the characters had fallen of a cliff...

In
Woodwalker, the characters come out as real, flawed, secretive and
interesting as hell, so no, I didn't want any harm to befall them.

Mae, the main character, has fallen into hard times following a forced banishment from her country. A
former woodwalker _ park ranger _ she got into a fight with her
country's former king, and is now trying to survive in her ~new~
condition of wanderer...so when the opportunity of escorting three
royals comes along, well, it's not like she had a full schedule, you
know? o_OAnd like she says, she has enough money to buy a whole peanut -_-

Mae
is a great character. She's strong, resourceful, patient ~manages to
not strangle Mona or even Arden through their long, long walk~ but she's
so much more than meets the eye.Throughout the story, the author
manages to insert some basic ecology information; nothing wrong if she
can bring some readers to the green side, lol

Now the negative, I
wasn't a big fan of the way of the way some things were named, because
the bad guy/invading country here, is named Alcoro...not so far from the
word Alcoran, right?~I do have politics in my mind, so it's kind of hard to avoid these kind of links~That
for me, could/should have been avoided. This is fantasy book, I don't
want to feel as I'm being indoctrinated regards religion: good religion
vs bad religion.Maybe the author only wanted to show what happens
when you take prophecies way to far... but it still left me somewhat
discomforted by it.

As for romances, rest assured that there isn't a love triangle, in fact there barely is a romance;)Well,
no, actually there's a romance, we just don't know that it is there;
because they're sneaky about it. And that was actually well done, so of
course I'm not going to spoil it.

So, here you have it, a four star
rating, because this had a pretty strong ending, which left me really
keen in getting my hands on the second book. The only downside being,
according to some reviewers, that Mae is no longer going to be the main
character.